As long as doctors treat patients effectively and efficiently, they are doing their jobs well, right? Maybe that was the case in years past, but the demands placed on today’s doctors are more complex than that. Although treating patients still remains at the heart of a doctor’s job description,...
Whether you put it at the top of the list or include it as a last-but-not-least, organizational skills are a vital element of an MSP’s work. Those skills sometimes spill out of an MSP’s core job description into projects that help medical staff members.
Is the document you just filed in a physician’s confidential peer review file really considered a peer review document? Are you maintaining meeting minutes in such a way that if a physician sues the organization, he or she won’t be able to use them against the hospital in a court of law?
Credentialing Resource Center Digest - Volume 11, Issue 21
Hospitals often are approached with opportunities to align with physicians, and the hospital often decides it desires an alignment relationship and initiates the “ask.” How does an organization decide how to say yes, and how do they decide to pass and say no thanks?
Credentialing Resource Center Digest - Volume 11, Issue 21
Congratulations to our May contest winner, Iracema Navarro, medical staff coordinator at Promise Hospital, San Diego! This sample policy of the physician report card won Iracema and a colleague free...
Credentialing Resource Center Digest - Volume 11, Issue 21
Before processing a low- or no-volume practitioner’s request for renewed privileges, hospital and medical staff leaders should engage the practitioner in a collegial conversation to determine whether he or she is still interested in privileges that authorize him or her to treat patients on an...
